George I. Gay, Commissioner, Planning Division, to Professor J. A. Field, Staff of United States Shipping Board, third cable of the day

Chronological Copy.File No. <42-2-4>

Cablegram Received<September 17, 1918.>Y-3

Origin Opnav Washington.Ser. No. S.M. 449

C-320 Sept

42 ARDCONFIDENTIAL.

Simsadus

Boards Navy 449 Gay to Fields. Secrist furnishes following data United States vessels 500 gross tonnage and over operated by United States citizens or United States Shipping Board.

In service Army tankers 3gross 18529 deadweight 26842

Total Service Army266 gross 1570588 deadweight 2003387

Navy tankers 1270425 deadweight108834

TotalNavy 56 gross159999 deadweight207243.

Food Administration tankers

1gross1704 deadweight2300

Total Food Administration

3gross9797 deadweight14900

New England Coal total

118gross315793 deadweight473963

Tans-Atlantic subdivided as follows:

British service total3gross28193 deadweight33300

French Service tankers 2gross14485 deadweight23470

TOTAL16gross72680 deadweight113977

Italian Service tankers 3gross16877 deadweight23950

TOTAL16gross74395 deadweight111200

Red Cross Russia total 1gross4966 deadweight6700

Other Trans-Atlantic

TOTAL4gross5856 deadweight8557

Trans-Pacific subdivided as follows:

East Asian tankers2gross16447 deadweight24820

TOTAL15gross50226 deadweight58000

East India TOTAL10gross16385 deadweight22219

Australian TOTAL7gross22383 deadweight23311

British India TOTAL 4gross15775 deadweight22860

Hawaiian Islands tankers4 gross21176 deadweight31400

TOTAL34 gross88159 deadweight 116362

Philippine Islands and

China TOTAL1 gross4407 deadweight5800

Hawaiian Inter Islands

TOTAL6 gross6311 deadweight5832

Philippine Islands Inter

Islands Total2 gross1116 deadweight1525

South American west tankers 1 gross 8651 deadweight12638

TOTAL76 gross266942 deadweight 389507

South America East TOTAL 32 gross97679 deadweight46271

West Indies tankers13 gross65562 deadweight86567

TOTAL73 gross182201 deadweight 230431

Caribbean Sea tankers3 gross17326 deadweight26807

TOTAL57 gross153446 deadweight 158695

Gulf tankers59 gross327993 deadweight 483370

TOTAL40 gross120752 deadweight 134391

Atlantic Coast total76 gross196176 deadweight 154023

Pacific Coast tankers14 gross54208 deadweight78459

TOTAL101 gross13650 deadweight 153794

Pacific Mexican TOTAL100 gross1497 deadweight1250

Pacific Trans-enroute

tank ship 1 gross7170 deadweight10122

TOTAL4 gross8314 deadweight10261

Other coast wise tank ships 1 gross875 deadweight1300

TOTAL80 gross72522 deadweight70654

making grand total as follows

Tank ships119 gross641438 deadweight 950953

TOTAL all1102 gross 3682206 deadweight 4678323

Total includes all types except tank ships. The 4 Red Cross Russian vessel include 1 going to Iceland 1 to West Coast Africa 1 enroute to Italy service and 1 in Spanish service Greenough.1 20617. Boards Navy 449.

Benson.

SENT:

RECS: 355 A.M. SEPT 19 1918.

Note

Trans en route comes clear. X 26.

Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 45, Entry 517B. The cable is on a printed form and much of the heading material is repeated on the second page of this two-page cable. The handwritten date is confirmed by the time/date notation at the end of the text.